AICE Media Studies Production Blog: Drained

 This weekend has been an extremely emotional one for me. I ran again at a meet on Saturday but in all honesty I shouldn’t have. I only made my ankle injury worst, and today my coaches found out. There was a point during the weekend where I couldn’t even put pressure on the foot so I went to get an X-ray. The result came back in and although it wasn’t a fracture or anything career ending, it was extremely close so I needed to sit out from the rest of the season. I blatantly ignored this warning and at practice today I unfortunately repeated the same fall which caused all of this in the first place. I was devastated to hear my coach say, “He done until further notice.” This meant that even if I wanted to practice secretly on my own and run at districts which is next week Tuesday I couldn’t. I was taken off of the team roaster as a whole and I felt like lost my purpose. Track was the only thing that reminded me of my life before the pandemic. Everything else had changed dramatically but track was the only thing that felt familiar. So to have this ripped away from me had a shattering effect on my happiness. One of the few things I was proud to do everyday was gone and so was I. I started to spiral downwards and everything was getting effected from my school work to my relationships I was lost. I mentally gave up on this project and that’s where I am right now and if I can’t do the thing I love I believe that’s where I’ll be.



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